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Subject: A New Unofficial "Halo 3 PC" Thread

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Bapabooiee
... except, Tombstone and Desolation aren't included in H2V =[
On the bright side, those two words clearly describe support for the Halo series PC games and Bungie, Gearbox, and Microsoft's attitude towards us.

Of course, you just can't complain considering Bungie has gone from an exclusively Mac games developer to both Mac and PC to XBox and pretty much stuck to XBox after Microsoft bought Bungie in 2000. Their business is on the XBox and nowhere else, so why complain to them? It isn't their problem. However, on a lighter note, I'm slighty optimistic about a more decent Halo 3 port, if one ever comes by.

[EDIT]

My post didn't reflect any sort of optimism, did it?

[Edited on 08.02.2009 5:37 AM PDT]

  • 08.02.2009 5:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: Beowul7
Posted by: Bapabooiee
... except, Tombstone and Desolation aren't included in H2V =[
On the bright side, those two words clearly describe support for the Halo series PC games and Bungie, Gearbox, and Microsoft's attitude towards us.

Of course, you just can't complain considering Bungie has gone from an exclusively Mac games developer to both Mac and PC to XBox and pretty much stuck to XBox after Microsoft bought Bungie in 2000. Their business is on the XBox and nowhere else, so why complain to them? It isn't their problem. However, on a lighter note, I'm slighty optimistic about a more decent Halo 3 port, if one ever comes by.

[EDIT]

My post didn't reflect any sort of optimism, did it?


Actually, Bungie is no longer owned by Microsoft. They split a couple years ago and became independent. The reason Halo 1 PC and Halo 2 PC existed is because Microsoft told Bungie to make them. Now that Microsoft is no longer in charge. Bungie doesn't have to make a PC port. So it's possible there may never be a Halo 3 port.

  • 08.02.2009 9:30 AM PDT

Why..why do you post here. You don't know anything when it comes to games on a computer. Just go back to your "smart" forum. First of all Bungie never ported Halo PC or Halo 2 Vista. Halo PC was ported by Gearbox with support from Bungie and Microsoft and Halo 2 Vista was ported by an internal Microsoft team called Hired Gun.

  • 08.02.2009 9:51 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Halo 1 was ported by gearbox and halo 2 was ported by msgs (who owns the rights to halo, which is why they made Halo Wars as well).

MS did not tell bungie to make them, they just ported them themselves.

  • 08.02.2009 1:15 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: JacobGRocks
Halo 1 was ported by gearbox and halo 2 was ported by msgs (who owns the rights to halo, which is why they made Halo Wars as well).

MS did not tell bungie to make them, they just ported them themselves.

Halo 2 was ported by Hired Gun, a team that did a slop job on the port and was fired shortly after.

  • 08.02.2009 5:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: DusK
Posted by: JacobGRocks
Halo 1 was ported by gearbox and halo 2 was ported by msgs (who owns the rights to halo, which is why they made Halo Wars as well).

MS did not tell bungie to make them, they just ported them themselves.

Halo 2 was ported by Hired Gun, a team that did a slop job on the port and was fired shortly after.


Which is why a Halo 3 port may never happen.

  • 08.02.2009 6:58 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Acutially, the real reason they were fired was due to poor sales. There have been games, though where people lost jobs over bad quality (sonic 360)

  • 08.02.2009 7:32 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

And America's Army 3. LOL @ that game.

  • 08.02.2009 9:27 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Posted by: DusK
And America's Army 3. LOL @ that game.


The only PC game worse than H2V, haha.

  • 08.02.2009 10:35 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Chaosenemy
Posted by: DusK
And America's Army 3. LOL @ that game.


The only PC game worse than H2V, haha.

I think what sucks about it the most is the amount of potential a game like that has. It could have been fantastic.

But instead, it was crap. :(

  • 08.03.2009 1:42 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

it wasnt totally bad, for me it is fun. And also, if you think aa3 is the worst pc game (it does suck), you need to see this game.

  • 08.03.2009 6:20 AM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Posted by: JacobGRocks
it wasnt totally bad, for me it is fun. And also, if you think aa3 is the worst pc game (it does suck), you need to see this game.


Haha, oh man. I was actually going to come in here and add that Soldier of Fortune 3 is also terrible, but damn, forgot all about Big Rigs. That game trumps all other bad games by a long shot.

  • 08.03.2009 7:15 AM PDT

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If they did make a Halo 3 Port, it would most likely require Windows 7. It might support Windows Vista, but there's a chance that it might be a Windows 7 exclusive. Just like how Halo 2 Vista was a Windows Vista exclusive. In my opinion, all the Halo spin-off games as well as PC ports, are just Microsoft's attempt to milk more money out of the Halo Series. Sure all the games are great, but you can obviously tell Microsoft is more interested in the money which explains why Halo 1 and 2 for PC lacked the features they should've had.

  • 08.03.2009 4:44 PM PDT

I will admit out of all the things you have said, this is the most accurate one yet

  • 08.03.2009 5:33 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: General Heed
If they did make a Halo 3 Port, it would most likely require Windows 7. It might support Windows Vista, but there's a chance that it might be a Windows 7 exclusive. Just like how Halo 2 Vista was a Windows Vista exclusive. In my opinion, all the Halo spin-off games as well as PC ports, are just Microsoft's attempt to milk more money out of the Halo Series. Sure all the games are great, but you can obviously tell Microsoft is more interested in the money which explains why Halo 1 and 2 for PC lacked the features they should've had.

Halo 1 lacked features because Microsoft mandated that the game be able to fit on a single CD-ROM. Given that the Xbox version is on a DVD, this not only made Gearbox's job very hard, but also prevented them from adding features they would have otherwise put in. Like integrating Halo CE, for example.

  • 08.03.2009 6:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: DusK
Posted by: General Heed
If they did make a Halo 3 Port, it would most likely require Windows 7. It might support Windows Vista, but there's a chance that it might be a Windows 7 exclusive. Just like how Halo 2 Vista was a Windows Vista exclusive. In my opinion, all the Halo spin-off games as well as PC ports, are just Microsoft's attempt to milk more money out of the Halo Series. Sure all the games are great, but you can obviously tell Microsoft is more interested in the money which explains why Halo 1 and 2 for PC lacked the features they should've had.

Halo 1 lacked features because Microsoft mandated that the game be able to fit on a single CD-ROM. Given that the Xbox version is on a DVD, this not only made Gearbox's job very hard, but also prevented them from adding features they would have otherwise put in. Like integrating Halo CE, for example.


I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem like they were tight on space. Gearbox managed to add several new maps to the game as well as an online multiplayer system. Seems like disc space wasn't really an issue. And even if it was an issue, what about Halo 2 Vista? It lacked several features that could have made it better. Sure it had the map editor, but it could've used some other things like online co-op. They could've made Halo 2 Vista sell as good as Halo 3. But they didn't. If they do make a PC port of Halo 3, They should just make a direct port and leave everything the same. Adding new features in Halo 3 isn't really needed since it already has so many features.

  • 08.03.2009 10:50 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: General Heed
I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem like they were tight on space. Gearbox managed to add several new maps to the game as well as an online multiplayer system. Seems like disc space wasn't really an issue. And even if it was an issue, what about Halo 2 Vista? It lacked several features that could have made it better. Sure it had the map editor, but it could've used some other things like online co-op. They could've made Halo 2 Vista sell as good as Halo 3. But they didn't. If they do make a PC port of Halo 3, They should just make a direct port and leave everything the same. Adding new features in Halo 3 isn't really needed since it already has so many features.

I can guarantee you that Halo 3 PC would not sell very much at all if it lacked a decent map editor and a server browser. Those are two things are standard fare for nearly every PC FPS.

  • 08.03.2009 11:35 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Another thing would be to use the standatd PC fps control system. (Scroll and number row select weapons, wasd in viechle instead of mouse turning drives it, etc). And it shouldnt be os locked as gfwl also runs in xp and many gamers still use vista (which will have DX11) and windows xp (which wont). And according to the steam hardware survey, this is what osses people use:

Windows Version
Most Popular Percentage
Windows XP 32 bit (-5.81%) 54.60%
Windows Vista 32 bit (-2.01%) 23.81%
Windows Vista 64 bit (+1.42%) 10.36%
Unspecified (+5.58%) 5.58%
Windows 7 64 bit (+0.72%) 2.70%
Windows 7 (+0.06%) 1.49%
Windows 2003 64 bit (+0.06%) 0.75%
Windows XP 64 bit (+0.07%) 0.53%
Other (+0.07%) 0.20%

Look how many gamers arent on 7. They would loose sales if gamers dont upgrade and just stick with what they have or wait till service pack whatever comes out.

  • 08.04.2009 4:47 AM PDT

To be fair, Windows 7 hasn't been released to the Public yet. I think it comes out in October.

  • 08.04.2009 9:06 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

The beta has been. But some gamers are having issues on win7 with a popular anti cheat needed to play the games (PUNKBuster.)

  • 08.04.2009 3:54 PM PDT

Yes, I know I tried Windows 7 love it and this will be fixed by the time the retail version is released.

  • 08.04.2009 4:17 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

It should be, but dont expect everyone to switch to it, after all, we learned with the last 2 windows osses to wait till the bugs were fixed. (XP = Security holes, fixed with SP2. Vista = exaguratted (by apple & press) instabality and driver issues, fixed with updates.) And they already released the RTM (final) Version, but only to oems like dell and lenovo.

  • 08.04.2009 7:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: DusK
Posted by: General Heed
I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem like they were tight on space. Gearbox managed to add several new maps to the game as well as an online multiplayer system. Seems like disc space wasn't really an issue. And even if it was an issue, what about Halo 2 Vista? It lacked several features that could have made it better. Sure it had the map editor, but it could've used some other things like online co-op. They could've made Halo 2 Vista sell as good as Halo 3. But they didn't. If they do make a PC port of Halo 3, They should just make a direct port and leave everything the same. Adding new features in Halo 3 isn't really needed since it already has so many features.

I can guarantee you that Halo 3 PC would not sell very much at all if it lacked a decent map editor and a server browser. Those are two things are standard fare for nearly every PC FPS.


I actually think Halo 3 PC will sell better than Halo 2 Vista but not as good as its console version. The map editor that Halo 3 already has is meant to be simple so anyone can make their own maps. Most PC map editors are a lot better, but they are usually a lot more complicated and required a lot of learning. As for the server browser, it kind of already exists where your friends and recent players on xbox live can join through the friends list. But overall, Halo 3 doesn't really need a server browser. What it needs is an effective matchmaking ranking system on the PC which most PC games usually don't have. When it comes to games like Halo 3, having a server list will require several pages of servers since thousands of people play Halo 3 everyday. That's kind of the reason why on the Xbox 360, most games don't use the server browser because it would overflow and prevent players from finding a good game. But, since Games For Windows Live works a bit differently than Xbox Live, I can see why a server browser would be required.

On Xbox Live, all online games are hosted by Microsoft's servers located in Redmond, Washington. It's basically a unified service. In Games For Windows Live, you typically host your own server like most PC games which is why they have a server browser. But in my opinion, PC online multiplayer should also be hosted 100% by Microsoft instead of individuals. That will usually reduce lag a bit and allows for better online features.

  • 08.05.2009 9:31 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

They do have one, but it is called custom match or optimatch, and it gives you a list you can filter out. And most live games are peer hosted, the live servers just matchmake.

And also, the halo 3 xbox map editor was supposed to be n00b friendly, unlike most pc map editors.

[Edited on 08.06.2009 6:08 AM PDT]

  • 08.06.2009 6:07 AM PDT

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Posted by: JacobGRocks
They do have one, but it is called custom match or optimatch, and it gives you a list you can filter out. And most live games are peer hosted, the live servers just matchmake.

And also, the halo 3 xbox map editor was supposed to be n00b friendly, unlike most pc map editors.


Exactly, which is why a lot of people like it because it's soo easy to use.

  • 08.06.2009 4:57 PM PDT